Today’s Irish Times
Bewildered Student writes:
Advertising for people to carry out deportations?
Good times/Anyone?
Today. Tesco, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Jim O’Callaghan writes:
Is the recession over yet ?
Thorn Again
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Warner UK are to release the first new single from The Smiths in 21 years, a 7″ led by a demo of The Boy With the Thorn in His Side, backed up with an unreleased take of Rubber Ring.
The artwork, featuring Albert Finney, was laid out by Morrissey.
No confirmed release date at this time.
But, yeah, reunion confirmed.
H/T True to You
Meanwhile…
Mmm.
Festive.
According to intelligence sources, the CIA started to plan the dropping of a 400-pound Steinway on Castro’s remains the moment the agency was made aware of the Cuban leader’s passing.
Agents devised a system where they would tie a piano to a helicopter and fly it above the funeral processional, but in a mortifying turn of events, the rope was reportedly cut too early, and the piano fell out of the sky and landed harmlessly 50 yards ahead of the march…
The Onion’s ClickHole spin-off has long since outdone its mothership in terms of laughs/relevance, and they’ve done it again this morning.
Earlier: Dan Boyle: Holiday In Havana
The Infinite Galaxy Puzzle by design studio Nervous System – a 133-piece jigsaw with an image of galactic central point (taken by the Hubble telescope) on each side.
Based on the principal of the Klein bottle, an impossible 3D shape with mathematically identical inner and outer surfaces, the puzzle can be constructed in a myriad of ways.
Intriguing? Annoying? Either way, the long winter evenings will just fly by.
The Lowering
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SIPTU tweetz:
Our famous 1916 banner is sadly coming down today – It was a great way to mark the anniversary of the Rising.
Mmf.
Chernobyl: finally hermetically sealed after three decades.
The European Bank For Reconstruction and Development sez:
Thirty years after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, the radioactive remains of the power plant’s destroyed reactor 4 have been safely enclosed following one of the world’s most ambitious engineering projects. Chernobyl’s giant New Safe Confinement (NSC) was moved over a distance of 327 metres from its assembly point to its final resting place, completely enclosing a previous makeshift shelter that was hastily assembled immediately after the 1986 accident.
Crowhammer – sci-fi inflected heaviness from Dublin
What you may need to know…
01. Crowhammer. A power-trio from the capital. Self-described as “Dublin’s premier narrative driven sci-fi/fantasy stoner rock/krautrock music group”.
02. The band has gigged semi-regularly around the country since their foundation, most recently including Little Gem Records‘ pre-Halloween throwdown at the bandstand in Phoenix Park.
03. Streaming above: 2013 single Wizard & Flame, available for FREE download NOW.
04. Catch them next, playing the Retro Revival Indie Club at Dublin’s Grand Social on December 9th, supporting No Spill Blood.
Verdict: Atmospheric, sludgy heft from a galaxy, far, far away.
Rise, Master
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Spotted this afternoon.
Phil writes:
Random heron dealer in Blanchardstown…
Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
Rathmines Post Office, Rathmines, Dublin 6
Jim O’Callaghan writes:
The snail mail is so slow they have reverted to pigeons…